This year marks the 110th anniversary of the 1916 Easter Rising. TOM GALLAHUE and ROBERT POOLE from Educators for a United Ireland discuss the role played by the Irish diaspora, and why the Rising remains relevant today
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A new era of crisis
Amid climate change, economic meltdown, worsening living standards and the growing threat of world war, the radical left must draw its own political horizon, combined with a popular sense of urgency, argues KEVIN OVENDEN
Extinction Rebellion demonstrators in Whitehall, London, on the last day of the environmental action group's four days of action that they called ‘The Big One’, April 24, 2023
On the 110th anniversary of the Easter Rising, Ireland stands at another historic crossroads, writes DECLAN KEARNEY of Sinn Fein
Volunteers have helped revive a pool steeped in England’s rural past and now bursting with life. MARK SEDDON takes a look
RHUN AP IORWERTH outlines Plaid Cymru’s immediate and medium-term policy goals
A row over Trotskyist factions exposes competing visions of organisation inside Your Party and the wider left, argues NICK WRIGHT
A growing coalition, Cymru Together, is challenging traditional politics – calling for practical plans that connect climate action with economic justice, writes BETHAN SAYED
THE next five years are almost certain to be the hottest period recorded.
The World Meteorological Organisation reported last week that its modelling, taking account of the shift from the El Nina to El Nino warming cycle in the Pacific, is of a 66 per cent chance of global temperatures rising to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels at some point by 2027.
That doesn’t necessarily mean that that threshold, which was set at the Paris climate conference in 2015, will be permanently breached. But it becomes more likely every month.
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